la-langue-verte

by: Asger Jorn, Noël Arnaud, Jean Jacques Pauvert

Publication date: 1968

Topics: art, theory, jorn

Collection: opensource

Language: French

La langue verte et la cuite is a book written in French by Asger Jorn and Noël Arnaud, and edited and published by Jean Jacques Pauvert in 1968. The book was written in reaction to the 1964 book Le cru et le cuit (The Raw and the Cooked) by Claude Lévi-Strauss, which was an examination of structuralist theory. The book contains numerous short essays with titles that parody French culinary dishes and texts that focus on Jorn and Arnaud's dissatisfaction with structuralist theory, coupled with historical greyscale images where the tongues of sculptures, people, and animals have been distinctly highlighted in colour. The book is 327 pages in length and contains over 300 images.